to Mac or not

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prowla wrote: »

Not quite true...

If you are only interested in the CPU horsepower, then maybe you have a point.

But there is a bit more to Apple's products than just the bogomips.

I would say that there is not another brand whose product styling matches Apple's.

And the design and manufacturing of the products exceed any other brand's too, for instance the unibody laptops, and the Mac mini. As for the Mac Pro, none of the other mainstream companies are even capable of thinking of something like that.

Beyond that, consider the displays; 2880x1800 resolution on a 15" laptop is twice the detail of a 1080p HDTV, and most Wintel laptops don't even have 1080p.

Then you've got the OS, which is free and has free version updates.

The old "I can buy a PC for half the price of a Mac" routine really doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

In the end, you pays your money and you takes your choice; I've got Mac and Windows (and Linux) PCs; each has their place, and I can appreciate the differences between them.

They're gimmicks.

It goes to show that apple is style over substance which funnily enough is what a designer brand is.

Retina display is a marketing gimmick, a game of oneupmanship. Its well known that the human eye can't detect clarity on that level.

securityguy

Big_Graeme wrote: »

But no good at all if the OS doesn't support USB.

Quite. You need an OEM version of Win95 from a machine which had USB, which at the time was quite rare. But this is besides the point.

Stoke

bsod wrote: »

The certificate errors you are getting are due to having a dead cmos battery, for a pound or less you could cure it without resorting to a new pc. Takes a couple of minutes to fit - google.



Or, you could just correct the date and time manually each time, or tell the machine to sync the time at login.

The second is what I'd do, but I think they actually fixed this issue in Vista <. It syncs the NTP time server on boot now, rather than at a specified time, a bit like Linux does.

CMOS batteries are pretty unnecessary if you have uninterrupted power.

Stoke

oh and for what it's worth, I wouldn't even remotely consider a Mac.

prowla

Stoke wrote: »

oh and for what it's worth, I wouldn't even remotely consider a Mac.

I'm sensing issues...